essay
The effect of 9/11 was much the same as the cause: a morally-void, global soliloquy of power
Noam Chomsky
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Bereaved Indians
To remember is to relive the trauma. Of reconstructing the event and wishing it had a different end. But death has a finality that sooner or later one has to accept. And the families who lost their dear ones to the tragedy—a sister, a brother, a husband, a daughter—are still grappling with the personal loss. Arun Venugopalan speaks to bereaved Indians in New York:
Arun Venugopal
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A fugitive Mullah Omar and an elusively mythic Osama haunt the US' year-old war against terror
Rahimullah Yusufzai
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It was a war of unequals: rusty Soviet-era T-72s vs stealth fighters. The fall of Kabul was a walkover.
Peter Greste
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The shock of 9/11 and the US military presence in the region might have helped pacify this turbulent zone; it hasn't.
Kanti Bajpai
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Fallout In J&K
Hoping for the US to fight India's fight over Kashmir is asking for a bit too much
V. Sudarshan
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Unaware of global realities, the average New Yorker confronted the tragedy intellectually disarmed
Mike Marqusee
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interview
Famous worldwide for his clash of civilisation thesis, Professor Samuel P. Huntington's work has frequently set a controversial agenda for public debate. He talks to Rahul Sagar about his book, The Clash of Civilizations, in ter-civilisational relations and US foreign policy since 9/11.
Rahul Sagar
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An 'externally flexible' Pakistan and Musharraf weather the jehadi storm, emerging the better for it
Ayaz Amir
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Many strands of political Islam are deemed 'fundamentalist', no thanks to the Bush-Sharon axis
John L. Esposito
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The war against terror has only strengthened the despots in the region, fanning more disaffection
Ahmed Rashid
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Voices
'9/11 was the totality of all that US foreign policy had added up to till that day.'
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They called it the mother of all events.
Outlook puts September 11 in a retrospective light, not in a ritual of remembering but because the catastrophe offers a prism, stark and painful, on our complex times. Refracted through it are personal trauma, the disbelief of the supremely insular New Yorker, a war in the Afghan badlands as seen via a scribe's diary, a region tormented by its consequences, and Islam's search for its soul in the backdrop of an ambivalent 'war against terror' that may only get more complicated in the coming year.
Noam Chomsky: Mirror Crack'd
Arun Venugopalan:
Ashes On The Hudson
Rahimullah Yusufzai:
Endurance Of Freedom
Peter Greste:B-52s Over Oxania
Kanti Bajpai: A Concerto
For Violence
V. Sudarshan: No Proxy Warriors
Mike Marqusee: New York! New York!
Samuel P. Huntington:
'Religion Is The Most Important Element In Defining A Civilisation'
Ayaz Amir: Faust's New Deal
John L. Esposito: Islam's Glasnost
Ahmed Rashid: Ground Zeroes
Short Interviews:
Shards, Memories